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- 1891: Crazy Horse
- 36 Years of Crazy Horse and His People When I think back to the stories about how the Native American Indians were driven from their land and forced to live on the reservations, one particular event comes to my mind. That event is the Battle of the Little BigHorn. This was one of the few times that the Oglala Sioux made history as being the victors of a battle. When stories are told, or when the media dares to tamper with history, it is usually the American Indians who are looked upon as the bad guys. They are portrayed as savages who spent their time raiding wagon trains and scalping the white settlers for enjoyment. The media has lead us to believe that the American government was forced to take the land from these savage Indians. But we need to put the blame where it belongs, on the U.S. Government who lied, cheated, and stole from the Oglala. ...
- 1892: Computers
- ... machine by devising one that could also multiply. The French inventor Joseph Marie Jacquard , in designing an automatic loom, used thin, perforated wooden boards to control the weaving of complicated designs. During the 1880s the American statistician Herman Hollerith conceived the idea of using perforated cards, similar to Jacquard's boards, for processing data. Employing a system that passed punched cards over electrical contacts, he was able to compile statistical information ... fed into the machine on a roll of punched paper tape, rather than being stored in the computer. In 1945, however, a computer with program storage was built, based on the concepts of the Hungarian-American mathematician John von Neumann. The instructions were stored within a so-called memory, freeing the computer from the speed limitations of the paper tape reader during execution and permitting problems to be solved without rewiring the computer. III. EARLY PROGRESS The rapidly advancing field of electronics led to construction of the first general-purpose all-electronic computer in 1946 at the University of Pennsylvania by the American engineer John Presper Eckert, Jr. and the American physicist John William Mauchly. Called ENIAC, for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, the device contained 18,000 vacuum tubes and had a speed of several hundred ...
- 1893: Cancer
- Cancer In the American society, cancer is the disease most feared by the majority of people within the U.S. Cancer has been known and described throughout history. In the early 1990s nearly 6 million cancer cases and more ... mostly in older people. In the United States more than one-fifth of the deaths in the early '90s was caused by cancer, only the cardiovascular diseases accounted at a higher percentage. In 1993 the American Cancer Society predicted that about 33% of Americans will eventually get cancer. In the United States skin cancer is the most dominating in both men and women, followed by prostate cancer in men and breast ... if, when administered to a population of previously untreated organisms, thet cause a statistically significant increase in the incidence of the neoplasms compared with the incidence in subjects that are left untreated. FOOTNOTES 1.) ACADEMIC AMERICAN ENCYCLOPEDIA (pp. 5-10) 2.)AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY'S COMPLETE BOOK OF CANCER (25-27) BIBLIOGRAPHY AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY'S COMPLETE BOOK OF CANCER, GROLIER ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING COMPANY ANDERSON, PAUL, ADVANCES IN CANCER CONTROL, ...
- 1894: Two Great Men: Franklin and Jefferson
- Two Great Men: Franklin and Jefferson Two men who will live on forever in our history books are Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. These two men have contributed many positive and sound ideas to our American culture. Their participation in so many different fields changed the world immensely. In their later years, they were noted politicians as well as respected scholars. Both were determined men who wanted to make the world a better place to live. Many contributions made by Franklin and Jefferson still shape American society today. Benjamin Franklin, a practical man, was one of fifteen children in his family. At a young age he was apprenticed to his brother and learned the printing trade. Franklin, a self taught man ... He felt that a man should learn what he called his "business" throughly and work hard in order to succeed. In the "The Way to Wealth," one of his most popular articles which help shape American culture, he wrote, "Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy, As Poor Richard says; and he that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while ...
- 1895: The Colorado River
- ... was returned to its original path. This disaster alarmed the landowners of the valley. The Imperial Irrigation District of Southern California was the largest single user of Colorado River water. They campaigned for an All-American Canal. One that would divert the river above the Mexican border and leave the Mexicali desert with what they didn't use. This was met with much opposition from the largest landowner in the Mexican ... from the City of Los Angeles. The city was growing rapidly and the need for future electric power was a major concern. Water experts advocated a dam on the Colorado. Without this dam, the All-American Canal would be in danger of breaching and flooding. The two forces combined to work for a Dam in Boulder Canyon on the Colorado River. In Salt Lake City in January 1919, representatives from the ... surplus above the total of 16 million acre feet, and if this was not sufficient, the deficiency would be shared equally by the two basins. The consensus was that the river and its tributaries were American (244,000 sq. miles) originating in the United States, very little of the Colorado River was in Mexico (2,000 sq. miles), and therefore they deserved very little. Herbert Hoover stated, "We do not ...
- 1896: The Canadian Personality
- ... bad things that are outside our country. We always talk about how the Americans are running more of Canada then we are, and the only nature part of Canada you ever hear about is the American view, snow, penguins and polar bears. In fact, our country has a vast amount of temperate wilderness, grand provincial parks and even a rainforest in the west. We have all the animals mentioned in the ... so many different backgrounds, still practicing their cultural traits. Canada seems to encourage being different, while other nations, such as America, try to form all of the citizens into a mold, try and achieve the 'American Dream'. We do not only have ethnic diversity. But also geographic diversity. Our country has most of the different climate regions that exist. We have polar tundra in the far north. A very large mountain ... we are a country full of polite, happy, joyful people. I disagree with that statement. I have been to Toronto and Ottawa, and I can see very little difference with these cities compared to an American city of the same size. I was once on a trip to Ottawa for four days. On the first day, I saw a woman with a knife case after some guy and threaten him ...
- 1897: The Americanization Of Canada
- ... being slowly Americanized in its social identity. When we talk about a country s social identity, we examine a few areas. First is the media, which is constantly bombarding Canadians with images and values of American culture. Through the images we see Americans constantly fighting, either in aspects of global policing in their own backyard with Americans killing Americans. Through situation comedies and news we Canadians are hit with a whole ... identity of Canada? First thought that comes to most peoples minds is that of the mounted police, beavers, ice hockey, and wide land mass. In fact, our national identity has been brought about by the American way of life. This buying spree essentially started when Walt Disney purchased the Mounted Police s image o it could be displayed in the Ebcot center. The most powerful, stunning uniform is to be adorned ... yokel. Another national image wh8ich spans all three topics of social, natural and cultural is that of Tim Horton s. The one place where we all go almost every day, has been bought by an American, Dave Thomas. The image of hockey is distorted as well for there are 28 teams in the NHL, and only 6 of those teams are based in Canada. That means that Canada only has ...
- 1898: Luciano
- ... secretive Charles Lucky Luciano. Who with the help of his closest friends and allies, even enemies, established the National Crime Syndicate in the early 1930s, which still remains today (Nash 251). Lucky Luciano, the true American gangster, rewrote the rules of the Italian Mafia, under control of old-line Sicilian rule, and created an organization open to all ethnic backgrounds (Dewey). He worked his way from being a struggling messenger for ... Nostra, and appointed a board of directors, including the legendary Al Scar-face Capone, with himself as the Chief Executive Officer. Lucianos presence demanded respect from everyone and aided in the creation of the American Mafia, a malignant but far-reaching underworld force that, to this day, continues to flourish (Nash 251). Born to the name Salvatore Luciana on November 24, 1897 in Lercardia Friddi, Sicily, the third child in ... each year for his stated profession as a gambler. His income never varied from year to year, claiming that he made $22,500 on wagers each year and paid taxes on this amount. The average American in the 1930s went though some tough times. The Depression left numerous people homeless and without jobs. Luciano and other Mafioso took advantage of the nation in need. Luciano knew that people were ...
- 1899: Death Of A Salesman 4
- Critical Essay Drama The idea that any person can rise from humble beginnings to greatness is the basis of the American Dream. Arthur Miller paints a harsh picture of this ideal in the drama Death of a Salesman. The main character, Willy Loman, is a complex and tragic figure. He is a man striving to hold ... to him you re the handsomest man in the world (1809). But the truth is being popular and good looking is not the key to success. Success is achieved through hard work and perseverance. The American Dream has long turned sour for Willy. At the beginning of his life, he remembers travelling in a wagon going westward. His parents conquered the new frontier and succeeded. His brother Ben, Walked into a jungle, and comes out, the age of twenty-one, and he s rich (1811). For a while, the American Dream was alive in Willy too. He helped stake out new territories by selling his goods, his son Biff was going to a university with a scholarship and he had a home with no ...
- 1900: The Joy Luck Club
- ... marriage. You find out in the movie that she had left Harold and is going out with a young Chinese man that respects and loves Lena and her mother Ying-Ying. I am a Chinese-American 2nd generation. Meaning my mom and dad are Chinese but they grew up in America. I look at my family and culture and it seems like the American way has somehow covered the Chinese way. I look at the way that my grandma is and compare it with the way my mom is and see some resemblance in it. But then there are ... new family. Lindo realized that this is not the kind of life that she wanted and she gets a rail ticket to Shanghai. Waverly on the other hand was grew up in America where the American customs have influenced her way of thinking. Waverly wanted to please her mother and she even married a Chinese Man. But still this didnt please her. When Waverly divorced him she thought that ...
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